Opinion

KUMC candidates

I chair the committee undertaking the search for a new executive vice chancellor of the Kansas University Medical Center. Contrary to repeated claims in Lawrence Journal-World opinion pieces, at no point did our committee forward to Chancellor Gray-Little only one candidate. The committee was unanimous in its desire to identify both strong internal and external candidates. The chancellor has provided the search committee with complete autonomy in the conduct of this search, and the committee is pleased with the quality of the candidates that will be visiting the medical center this month.

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Commenter's note: Considering that the chair of the search committee has just refuted your claim, the readers of this newspaper deserve to know on what basis you continue to state this falsehood. "Because I say so" is not reporting, it is rumor mongering.

Dolph has repeatedly claimed that only one candidate was forwarded. The committee chair said Dolph was wrong. That has nothing to do with whether or not any forwarded candidates were rejected.

Talk about both unprofessional and petty, too!! An "editor's note"? To a Letter to the Editor? Dolph ought to be ashamed of himself. I hope he quickly posts an apology to all of us, and particularly to Dr. Ellerbeck, in the paper.